philadelphia area about infrastructure, this bridge in the city collapsed. fortunately no one was killed but ten people were hurt. we re going to look at why the biden administration wants a renewed focus on fixing our clearly crumbling bridges and road. first, though, a big update on something back at the white house. a family matter or should i say a feline matter. it s something that i actually talked about with the first lady last april. the first family was considering adopting a cat. oh, yes, that is true. she s waiting in the wings. was this your idea, mr. president? no, but it s easy. well, the cat s out of the bag. meet willow biden, the 2-year-old striped tabby has just moved into the white house. she s named for the first lady s hometown of willow grove,
out with the judge. but it you know, the there s so much conflict between what the parties are saying that i don t think anybody has any, real sense as to as to whom to believe here. the bottom line chloe, anything from britney, herself, on this issue? sorry? no, she addresses it here and there on her social-media feed on instagram. just today, she posted a video saying that i know you guys know everything. the cat s out of the bag. what s going on in my life, when it comes to the conservatorship. and then, she moved onto a different topic. this is what we do know. britney spears said, multiple times, at two different hearings this summer, that she wants her father removed. but she wants the conservatorship terminated. so, elliot, i wish you could explain, to us, why is mathew rosengart filing to remove the father but not filing a petition to terminate this conservatorship, once and for all? i don t understand that. you know, and that s perplexing to me, too. elliot,
technology policy at the heritage foundation, cara frederick. cara, great to see you, as always. look, this is a weird situation. the bed fellows on this are confusing. i feel like this is getting very complicated. you re great at breaking things down for us, so here we go. is facebook doing enough or are they doing too much? todd, well, i think you know where i stand on this issue. facebook is doing too much. and at this point, the cat s out of the bag as others have said, they they are saying the quiet part outloud. this is the biden administration. they re saying that, you know, hey, we are attempting to circumvent the constitution, we re attempting to evade the first amendment by outsourcing our censorship, our desired censorship to private companies and this is not tenable. you know who else thinks it s not tenable? the supreme court. friend of the show, vivek swamy he reminds us in norwood, versus harrison, the supreme court says this is not allowed. you cannot allow a private
knows that this has become a very fraught issue with bill taylor no longer on the reservation. so the timeline really makes sense in terms of trump timely having to say, okay. the cat s out of the bag and things could get worse. i better release the money. yeah. maybe the phone call with rob portman was this accumulation of things you just outlined that was the tipping point. gloria, what do we know about trump s relationship with senator portman? we know that portman is from a very important state. important state to the president. we know he s more moderate than the president of the united states but he hasn t been, kind of walked a fine line, and we also know one thing about portman. which is, he told the president one more thing, which is, if you don t approve this aid it s going to vaporize. it s going to go away, because we go into another year and the ukrainians are never going to be
dry an adverse inference and call that obstruction. those are separate standing articles of impeachment and they have some, all of this is infused with politics and public sentiment. they have some leg to stand on because this is no longer what the white house might have called a fishing expedition. the cat s out of the bag. we know about the conversation between the president and the president of ukraine. we know about the other issues relating to the separation of some of these conversations to the secret server. i think a lot of people have been affected by this information and know it s bad. will they get to the bottom of everything? probably not. lots of criminal cases are made with enough evidence to make the case and prover the case to a jury, not the senate but a regular jury of people s peers and you can still do that without having everything. i think the adverse inference principle will weigh heavily here. thank you for being here. we have more breaking news on